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With most of that money gone, Lockheed is in a financial tailspin again, facing what Chairman Daniel Haughton calls "a straightforward matter of the possible need for additional cash." That understates the case: Lockheed could well become the first corporate victim of the energy crisis, and this time there is no savior on the immediate horizon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Star-Crossed Lockheed | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

...horrible call by an official during the first quarter sent the Crimson offense into their fatal tailspin. The contested play: a Stoeckel pass to McInally; the criminal: a stingy Yale defensive halfback named Charity; the crooked judge: an official who refused to call interference after Charity flattened McInally while (but not before) the Stoeckel throw was in transit; the result: in six plays a Yale touchdown. From then it was all downhill: 14-0, 21-0, 28-0, 35-0. Splash...

Author: By Charles E. Shepard, | Title: Tending the Flock | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

Financial Tailspin...

Author: By Steven Luxenberg, | Title: New Dean of Graduate School Will Be Third in Three Years | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

Dreben inherits a graduate school in the midst of a financial tailspin. The graduate students have felt the pinch more than others, and have responded with a demand to see the GSAS budget to determine for themselves the extent of the crisis...

Author: By Steven Luxenberg, | Title: New Dean of Graduate School Will Be Third in Three Years | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

...consent order to correct its practices or risk a formal complaint from the FTC. Meanwhile, complaints are clanking in from other chains, which are striving to meet A. & P.'s posted prices. Bohack President Joseph Binder fumes: "A. & P. is helping to place the supermarket business into a tailspin. That company is selling items at prices at which it could not possibly make a profit." Prospects of more bloodletting are worrying investors. In the past two weeks, the stocks of three major chains-Jewel, National Tea and Supermarkets General-all plunged to lows for the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAILING: War in the Supermarkets | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

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